Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Spotlight

Professor Emeritus Andrew Knyazev has been named as part of the 2019 Class of American Mathematic Society Fellows , " for contributions to numerical partial differential equations, computational mathematics and linear algebra, with industrial applications ." The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to...

The Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Department is proud to announce new funding from NSF for Michael Jacobson (Principal Investigator), Gary Olson (Co-Principal Investigator), Michael Ferrara (Co-Principal Investigator) and RaKissa Manzanares (Co-Principal Investigator) for the project Collaborative Research: Promoting Success in Undergraduate Mathematics through Graduate Teaching Assistant Training . This project...

Jan Mandel, Professor in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, will be presenting at the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting, December 10-14, in Washington DC, "Retrieving Fire Perimeters and Ignition Points of Large Wildfires from Satellite Observations." He will discuss a method that automatically makes a continuous map of wildland fire progression from...

Professor of Mathematics Michael Jacobson along with Professor of Computer Science Tom Altman (co-PIs) and Clinical Assistant Professor (C/T) of Mechanical Engineering Maryam Darbeheshti are collaborating on a new Urban S-STEM project. The grant is a tri-institutional National Science Foundation award between University of Colorado Denver, the University of Memphis,...

Last week we announced the rankings of the Department of Integrative Biology (#98) and Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences ranked (#117 and #83) but failed to include our Clinical Health Psychology program, which was ranked 87th nationally. Congratulations!

Alexis Dennise Catala, Integrated Biology, and Vincent Craig Herr, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, have been selected to receive a 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship .

On March 19, the US News & World Report announced its yearly rankings of graduate programs and the Department of Integrative Biology ranked #98, and the Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences ranked # 117 in Mathematics and #83 in Statistics. Congratulations!

Chair and Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Science, Julien Langou's paper titled "Fast Parallel Randomized QR with Column Pivoting Algorithms for Reliable Low-rank Matrix Approximations," (with coauthors Jianwei Xiao and Ming Gu from UC Berkeley) won the best paper award of the 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing,...

Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Professor Julien Langou has been awarded a $300,000, two-year award, starting August 1, by the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, "SHF: EAGER: Developing General Techniques for Tightening Bounds of the Data-Movement Complexity of Large Scale Parallel Applications."

CLAS is proud to announce the following Graduate Program recent rankings from US News and World Reports : Department of Integrative Biology #75 Department of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences #115 (math) and #75 (stats)